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Watch NZ Herald Focus: Obama attacks Trump
New Zealand

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Obama attacks Trump

Watch NZH Focus: President Barack Obama attacks Donald Trump saying he’s entirely unfit to serve as president. Thousands attend the funeral of French priest Father Jacques Hamel, who was murdered in his church by Islamist extremists.

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Zika health warning in Miami
New Zealand

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Zika health warning in Miami

10 new cases of Zika in Florida prompt health officials to advise pregnant women to avoid an area just north of downtown Miami. A Russian military helicopter is shot down in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province killing all five people on board. More than 1,000 migrants are rescued off the coast of Libya by the Italian coastguard.

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Trump mocks dead Muslim US soldier's mother
New Zealand

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Trump mocks dead Muslim US soldier's mother

Watch NZH Focus: Donald Trump's coming under renewed attack, from the family of a Muslim US soldier who was killed in Iraq. A memorial service has been held at Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral for the elderly priest who was murdered on his altar in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray last Tuesday. Poland's Catholic faithful have bid farewell to Pope Francis as the pontiff concluded his five-day visit to the country

Watch NZ Herald Focus:  German Chancellor pledges to keep country safe
New Zealand

Watch NZ Herald Focus: German Chancellor pledges to keep country safe

Watch NZH Focus: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pledged to do "everything humanly possible" to keep Germany safe following a string of attacks including two carried out by asylum-seekers. At least 77 people have died and several are missing in floods and landslides in Nepal. Donald Trump now he says he was joking when he ¬challenged Russia to hack into her emails

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Trump asked for Russia's help
New Zealand

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Trump asked for Russia's help

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has appealed to Russia to uncover and release thousands of emails that Hillary Clinton did not hand over to U.S. officials as part of a probe into the use of her private email system. Pope Francis says that a string of recent attacks, including the murder of a priest in France, was proof that the "world is at war".

Watch NZ Herald Focus: French Priest killed by Islamic State
New Zealand

Watch NZ Herald Focus: French Priest killed by Islamic State

Watch NZH focus: A 84-year-old priest in northern France has been killed and four other people were taken hostage by two armed men who stormed his church. A Kiwi has smashed the world sheep shearing record in England, Matt Smith, averaged 81 sheep an hour. And Pokemon takes India by storm.

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Russia not banned from Rio Olympics
New Zealand

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Russia not banned from Rio Olympics

The IOC will not ban the entire Russian Olympic team from the Rio games. The Australian team are not moving into the Olympic Village because of "blocked toilets, leaking pipes and exposed wiring”. And shocking footage is released of the moment a woman was mauled to death by a tiger at a safari park in Beijing.

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Olympic terror plot foiled
World

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Olympic terror plot foiled

Watch NZ Herald Focus: Police in Brazil arrest 10 people on suspicion of belonging to a group supporting Islamic State and preparing acts of terrorism during next month's Olympics in Rio Also Russia has lost its appeal against the ban on 68 track and field athletes from competing in the Olympics. And Joseph Parker's victory over Solomon Haumono in Christchurch ended in controversy after the Australian's camp filed an official protest

Watch NZ Herald Focus: After 33 years US Navy to visit NZ
New Zealand

Watch NZ Herald Focus: After 33 years US Navy to visit NZ

The US Vice President is expected to confirm the United States Navy will send a ship to New Zealand this year, ending a 33-year absence from our ports because of the anti-nuclear rift. A speechwriter for the Trump campaign has taken the blame for copying parts of 2008 Michelle Obama speech and including it in Melania Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention. The new British PM, Theresa May is in Berlin for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel. President Joe Biden says New Zealand and America have a vested interest in the Pacific.

Watch NZ Herald Focus: State sponsored doping in Russia
New Zealand

Watch NZ Herald Focus: State sponsored doping in Russia

Russia run a state-sponsored doping programme at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, that’s according to a report out today. Prime Minister John Key says he can't say if he brought up the case of a New Zealander convicted of drug smuggling in Indonesia with its president.